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W.D.Okla.: Encounter on a bus in OKC led to valid consent

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Defendant was on a cross-country Greyhound trip and several officers boarded the bus in OKC just before it was to depart, and one stood in front of the bus. They talked to passengers and got to defendant in the rear, asked for this ticket and saw he was going from a “source city” (Phoenix). They asked for consent to search his bag, and defendant gave it. Nothing was found. Defendant was nervous and looking at this feet. The officer asked to search his shoes, and defendant handed them over. Drugs were found in the shoes. The search was with valid consent under Bostick. United States v. Corral, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8679 (W.D. Okla. January 28, 2011) [Note: I find these cases utterly unbelievable and creation of a complete legal and factual fiction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).